Riley v. Agwilines, Inc.

This is an action for wrongful death of plaintiff-respondent’s intestate, William Riley, who, while working as a stevedore on the S.S. Medina, owned, operated and controlled by defendant-appellant, fell through an uncovered hatch in an unlighted part of the deck immediately below the top deck of the vessel.'

Riley was one of a number of longshoremen employed by the Jarka Corporation, a contracting stevedore which was engaged in removing ballast and cargo from the S.S. Medina moored at a pier in New York Harbor. One gang of these longshoremen, of which Riley was a member, worked on the upper…